genius!! 😍 what a brilliant idea for a course, i'd take it just for fun

Nile River captured from the international space station (ISS)

Is Belgium a narco-state?

the latest from dear friend and top-notch investigative journo Mitch Prothero, writing with Max Daly

unherd.com/2026/04/is-b...

The IDF is great at poisoning the water, at uprooting trees, at flying drones over schools, at blowing up mosques and churches, at terrorising grandmas and grandpas.

Even their own internal reports show that most of their victims are civilians.

Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.

In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.

Most people have no idea. 🧵

Open access to "The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries," by my amazing mother, Rosemary Sayigh, who turned an impressive 99 this month. Published in 1979, it went thru several reprints & translations and remains a landmark book:

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Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

Was alerted by a student to this story. Horrific stuff.

edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Zurich airport is so depressing. My first and hopefully last time flying out of there. Don't recommend it. Geneva Airport is better in pretty much every way 🤷🏻‍♀️

DC doesn’t want to be a part of Maryland or Virginia and neither Maryland or Virginia wants DC to be a part of them. Statehood now.

🌎 A key Atlantic Ocean current system that helps regulate the planet's climate could weaken more than expected by 2100, with potentially devastating consequences worldwide, a new study has found.
➡️ u.afp.com/SE6T

It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though:
-There’s no war
-The US wasn’t attacked or under threat
-Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists
-These may not be traffickers
-It’s blatantly illegal
-With no clear strategy either

Kuwait detains journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin over social posts Ahmed Shihab-Eldin’s detention in Kuwait raises concerns over a widening crackdown on press freedom during the Iran war.

"The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Kuwaiti authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin."

More of Taybeh village, south Lebanon detonated by the Israelis

good riddance!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Realizing that one knows more about world history and geography than the entire senior staff of the US executive branch is a terrifying thing.

Vijay Prashad is not a serious or ethical person and has not been for over a decade now. People really shouldn't take him seriously. The ethics of supporting a genocide and of using LLM-hallucinated citations to support an article justifying it, well, that's the most recent reason why.

People who are AI fanboys (I use the term advisedly, because it's definitely a gendered phenomenon) don't seem to realize that they're signaling to the world that they a) don't trust their own analytical skills, b) prefer hallucinated fantasies to the truth.

Gov. Spanberger signs bill to end the renewal of Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed Del. Dan Helmer’s bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia Wednesday, according to a press…

'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

"I used to go to france all the time but it's just too dangerous now." He said this! I said, sir it is just the same as anywhere else, don't you go up to DC or any big city? This motherfucker says "Oh i don't go there ever, way too risky." ??? What? These people are fully delusional, it's unnerving

In VA, some old dude starts talking to me. He says it's a pity he can't go to EU anymore because too dangerous. ??? I assured him this was untrue but he didn't believe me. Turns out this "no-go zone" nonsense is really real?? I honestly thought no one could be stupid enough to believe it, but nope!🤦🏻‍♀️

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Everyone calling everyone. Hard to keep track of the locations of the strikes. People calling to check on me as I call others to check on them. I can’t describe the terror and chaos. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel. Fuck Israel

At some point Israel abandoned all pretenses and decided to lean hard into the cartoonish evil it has always embodied

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Insane video showing multiple Israeli airstrikes over Beirut at the same time

Guernica by Picasso 1937

Guernica by Picasso, 1937, a symbol of peace and resistance against fascism.
#war #art #picasso

Escalatory pressures abound with Iran hitting energy infrastructure and a desalination plant in Kuwait and a reported Iranian shoot down of a U.S. fighter jet. Regardless of Trump’s intentions, it will only get harder to contain this spiral.

Update: Swiss Air has jet fuel reserves till June, I found out from a representative on the phone the day before I traveled, so I am no longer worried about getting stuck on this side of the pond. So I can go back to worrying fulltime about everyone in Lebanon and the region instead now 🤦🏻‍♀️😭

been living in europa for years, yet everyday, someone there absolutely *has* to be weird in some small way designed to remind me "You Don't Belong Here"- i'm immune to it, even find it funny. But the moment I step into either America or an Arab country, a weight i didn't notice i was carrying lifts